ERASURE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Deletion by an act of expunging or erasing

Synonyms:

erasure; expunction; expunging

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("erasure" is a kind of...):

deletion (the act of deleting something written or printed)

Derivation:

erase (remove from memory or existence)

erase (remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing)

Meaning:

A surface area where something has been erased

Example:

another word had been written over the erasure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("erasure" is a kind of...):

area; expanse; surface area (the extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary)

Derivation:

erase (remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing)

Meaning:

A correction made by erasing

Example:

there were many erasures in the typescript

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("erasure" is a kind of...):

correction (something substituted for an error)

Derivation:

erase (remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing)